After everyone raved about my last post I have performance anxiety, cause not much tops an encounter with a birthing dog . . .
We went to visit the Church of Saint Barbara (hi mom!), to find this sign pointing the way to “Saint Barpara’s Church.” Considering that “p” doesn’t exist in the Arabic language, somebody really screwed up that translation.
That also means that mom, when you come to visit everyone will have to call you “Bam.” (and we will drink “Bepsi.”)
(since it was taken inside the church, I’m assuming it’s St. B. All I know about her is she’s the patron saint of artillery.)
This is how awesome of a camera person I am. Josh was talking to this Egyptian policeman in Arabic and it was pretty great sounding, so I was trying to secretly get part of it on video. I pressed record while the camera was down at my side. Turns out I didn’t actually switch over to video mode so you get this picture instead and will just have to imagine how authentic he sounded.
This is another one of my “shoot from the hip” photos. The guy holding the beer sign had another one right next to it saying, “con alcohol.” (I was hoping to get that part too, but was shooting blind.) You can buy beer in the grocery stores but it’s all non-alcoholic, so finding a place that serves beer “with alcohol” is an event. At least this seller thought so.
There you go! All the “highlights” of Coptic Cairo. I’ll try and do better next time.